I. D. Douglas Quotes
There's nobody between you and the print. Nobody. It's you and the subject and the final print. And if you get it published that way, you've said it.
I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country.
Our upside down welfare state is socialism for the rich, free enterprise for the poor.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.
We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.
To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.
Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes.
Having a child who is struggling doesn't make you a bad parent, just as being a child who is struggling doesn't make your child a bad kid.
As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.
Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.
A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.
Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.
Sometimes it seems as though each new step towards AI, rather than producing something which everyone agrees is real intelligence, merely reveals what real intelligence is not.
It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.
A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age - regardless of how they look on the outside - pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.
The first step toward liberation of any group is to use the power in hand... And the power in hand is the vote.
Good architecture is necessary to give programs enough structure to be able to grow large without collapsing into a puddle of confusion.
She had what it took: great hair, a profound understanding of strategic lip gloss, the intelligence to understand the world and a tiny secret interior deadness which meant she didn’t care.
what I remember is the silence in spite of the noise. In my head it might just as well have been a snowy day in the country.
Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience (in this case, the judge or the jury) that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.
Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.
Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.
Please relax," said the voice pleasantly, like a stewardess in an airliner with only one wing and two engines one of which is on fire, "you are perfectly safe.
I directed two films, not very successfully, and after that, I went back to being an actor and a producer.
Photography has a natural affinity for the strategies of surrealism - the exaltation of chance and eros, the exploration of obsession and the release of the unconscious.
I have a great respect for actors like Clint Eastwood, who's a wonderful director. I think two pictures that I directed were not successful, so I decided not to make any more.
The Internet has made me very casual with a level of omniscience that was unthinkable a decade ago. I now wonder if God gets bored knowing the answer to everything.
A man, so to speak, who is not able to bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day.
To accept the principal that "all power proceeds from the barrel of a gun" is to accept a society which will be dominated by those with the biggest guns.
A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old one.
